[ltp] Old Thinkpad with Neomagic NM2200 (MagicMedia 256AV) video/audio chip

[Damien Challet]

On Wednesday 31 December 2008 23.10:14 rrkrr wrote:
> I have an old i-Series Thinkpad with a Neomagic NM2200 video chip.  This
> thing used to play DVD movies under Windows 98.  Running Ubuntu 8.10
> with the X.org Neomagic driver, I cannot play downloaded videos, even at
> reduced size - the video update rate is very slow.  Does anyone have
> this driver working properly?

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man neomagic

in a terminal, then add the OverlayMem= SOME_NUMBER_I_DO_NOT_REMEMBER option 
to the device section of xorg.conf